The long lines, logistical problems and delays that plagued the Democratic Party’s precinct conventions earlier this month were reprised at Senate District conventions around San Antonio and across the state Saturday as Democrats continued to sort through the heated presidential contest between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

The substantive votes to send delegates along to the state Democratic Party convention in June were expected to be delayed substantially as delegate credentials and other verifying information were being challenged by the two campaigns, each wary of any tactical advantage the other side might gain.

At the Alamo Convocation Center, where delegates from Senate District 26 were being chosen, the line stretched outside and confusion seemed to reign.

“We’re going through some, I guess, growing pains as a party,” said Jose Gallegos Jr., a Clinton delegate who also serves on the Bexar Metropolitan Water District board.

Similar scenes unfolded at Municipal Auditorium, where Senate Districts 21 and 25 were holding their conventions, and at a warehouse near the Pearl Brewery, the site for Senate District 19.

Lawyers for the Obama campaign were sounding alarms at the District 19 site about the possibility of Clinton delegates being counted twice. Officials there also were seeking to account for several precincts’ worth of paperwork that was never recovered after the March 4 party precinct conventions, which took place after polls closed on election night.

Leaders from both parties scrambled to meet with Martin Alvarez, who owns the warehouse where the District 19 convention was held, after he threatened to kick party members off the property early Saturday afternoon.

Delegates and alternates showed up by the hundreds for the 8:30 a.m. start time and were still being processed by early afternoon. Party organizers had hoped to conduct the vote at 2 p.m. but that didn’t happen.